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EDBT
2004
ACM
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Processing Unions of Conjunctive Queries with Negation under Limited Access Patterns
We study the problem of answering queries over sources with limited access patterns. The problem is to decide whether a given query Q is feasible, i.e., equivalent to an executable...
Alan Nash, Bertram Ludäscher
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Learning Performance Through Rational Resource Allocation
This article shows how rational analysis can be used to minimize learning cost for a general class of statistical learning problems. We discuss the factors that influence learning...
Jonathan Gratch, Steve A. Chien, Gerald DeJong
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Text Line Segmentation Based on Morphology and Histogram Projection
Text extraction is an important phase in document recognition systems. In order to segment text from a page document it is necessary to detect all the possible manuscript text reg...
Rodolfo P. dos Santos, Gabriela S. Clemente, Ing R...
CGF
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Single-pass Scalable Subsurface Rendering with Lightcuts
This paper presents a new, scalable, single pass algorithm for computing subsurface scattering using the diffusion approximation. Instead of pre-computing a globally conservative ...
Adam Arbree, Bruce Walter, Kavita Bala
IEEEMSP
2002
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
An optimal shape encoding scheme using skeleton decomposition
—This paper presents an operational rate-distortion (ORD) optimal approach for skeleton-based boundary encoding. The boundary information is first decomposed into skeleton and di...
Haohong Wang, Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos K. Katsag...